Calithera Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Sapanisertib for the Treatment of NRF2-mutated Squamous Lung Cancer
Published date:
10/03/2022
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Calithera Biosciences, Inc...announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the company’s investigational mTORC 1/2 inhibitor sapanisertib (CB-228) for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (sqNSCLC) whose tumors have a mutation in nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (NFE2L2, also called NRF2) and who have received prior platinum-based chemotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
Sapanisertib in Treating Patients With Stage IV or Recurrent Lung Cancer
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...- Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed stage IV or recurrent squamous cell lung cancer or KRAS mutant lung cancer that harbors any of the NFE2L2 mutations or KEAP1 mutations; any KEAP1 mutation will be eligible...